Never used XP, but is this was a win98 question I'd say the problem was that you were not logged into the windows box with a valid username/password.
For some reason if you give windows the wrong password it does not stop you logging on and seeing all the files, but it will stop you browsing the network. I think they call it security? Derek On Tuesday 11 December 2001 19:03, Neil R Porter wrote: > Hi All > > I'm baffled. I have a 3 computer network at home. Using a switch, I > have my Linux machine and two other XP workstations all connected. The > Linux box acts as a gateway for the net and a print server etc. and the > xp workstations are simply used for day-to-day work. I have it set up > so I can share files between all 3 computers (using a combination of > microshaft's connection wizard thingy and samba/komba2). Everything was > fine until recently one of the XP machines stopped sharing it's files > (and was unable to connect to the other two computers' shared files), > although the other two computers still happily share files and printer. > > The 'faulty' xp machine still takes it's connection for the net through > the linux box though! - so no major network hardware problem I > thought/think!? > > Linux ip: - 192.168.0.1 (gateway) > Xpbox1 (faulty share machine): - 192.168.0.2 (mask, 255.255.255.0, > gateway 192.168.0.1) > Xpbox2: - 192.168.0.3 (mask, 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1) > > Both the linux box and XPbox2 can ping each other, and I can ping both > the linux box and the XPbox2 from the 'faulty' XPbox1. However, and > perhaps crucially, I cannot ping XPbox1 from either linux or XPbox2. > > Phew, that took some writing and no doubt has taken some reading if > you've bothered to get this far :) > > Can anyone offer me help please... I know this is not strictly a Linux > query as it seems XPbox1 is to blame, but I'm sure someone out there > might have some ideas to try at least. Could it be a hardware issue? > That's all I could find in the way of help on the MS knowledge base > webby. > > Thanks > > Neil
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